Food
Traditional dishes
Fried squids, gazpacho and tapas.
Caldereta: Lamb stew: Shepherd's dish par excellence, this Spanish dish holds its name from the cast-iron cauldron, " the caldereta ", in which it was originally made. It is an adaptable dish, allowing any kind of local ingredients such as wine, potatoes, tomatoes, onion, red and green peppers and garlic can be added. In Extremadura's old recipes, the cooking juice is thickened with dried bread-crumbs, lamb liver and almonds, mixed up with a meat stock to make a sort of dough.
Paella: typical Spanish dish; it is saffron rice based with seafood and meat or poultry. The real paella is prepared in a big special pan, round and shallow flat shaped with two handles, often in big cast-iron so that it can been used either in the oven or on live charcoal
Churros: In Spain, churros are part of the popular tradition as well as hot chocolate. The dough is generally molded in a cartridge with a tip in star shape to form strips of the length of a hand. Once they are fried, they are piled and sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon on top.
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